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Orchid Species: Masdevallia amethystina

Kew currently accepted name is Porroglossum amethystinum

Masdevallia amethystina is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1878. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Porroglossum amethystinum.
Genus
Masdevallia (Masd.)
Grex
amethystina
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Species
Author
Rchb.f.
Year
1878
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ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2350 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial in clay roadside embankments with a short, erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and a single, apical, coriaceous, long petiolate, narrowly obovate, acute to subacute leaf that gradually narrows to the petiole giving rise to a congested, successively few-flowered, racemose, 6 to 10 [15 to 25 cm] long inflorescence with well spaced tubular bracts and tubular, imbricating floral bracts occurring at most any time of the year.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Porroglossum Prgm amethystinum 1967 (Rchb.f.) Garay
Add+ Scaphosepalum Sppm amethystinum 1921 (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Prgm. amethystinum 'Dark Mountain' (1979)
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